So, activities started back up this week, and I’m currently sitting outside a closed cafe on the esplanade in Caloundra, watching the people swimming at the beach, and waiting for Carmie’s Dungeons & Dragons session to end. It is quite lovely down here - there’s live music next door, nice ocean breezes…this is easily the most relaxing part of my day!
We were supposed to start back with doing school work this week too, and having set bedtimes…but then that all went down the drain. On Monday I had to take Arley to the dentist for a longer appointment, getting ready for his Invisalign treatment. I thought there was a chance he might get a tooth pulled, and I told him as much and told him what would happen if they did…however I told him I didn’t think it was going to happen then. I was wrong! Arley was in the dentist chair and the dentist said the tooth was coming out. In two seconds flat Arley was back out in the waiting room telling me it wasn’t going to happen. I managed to get him back to the dentist’s room, but as soon as the dentist went to look in his mouth, Arley was out of that chair and scooting under that big swinging arm thing. I went to get him but couldn’t find him in the waiting room. Instead I found him in the supply closet. OMG. I had to bribe him to leave and go back to the dentist’s room. His reward for being brave was: a direct trip to the supermarket to buy whatever he wanted, no school work for two weeks, his iPad overnight in his bedroom for two weeks, and an open bed time for two weeks, and Carmie had to get all this too. And then Arley still wouldn’t sit still until they gave him some gas! But we got the tooth pulled! In two weeks Arley goes back to get his first Invisalign mouthpiece, and if all goes well, his dental work will be finished in six months!
We had Taekwon Do on Tuesday morning again, after three weeks off. The lesson was a bit of a disaster. I wasn’t participating because I have an injury (I fell off my electric unicycle!!), and Carmie hadn’t slept well at all the night before. Arley was all complaints, because apparently his leg hurt too and he hadn’t slept well either. Grrrrrrr. We didn’t really manage to turn it around, but I had him message Mr Kelly and apologise an hour later. We spent some time up at Lolo and Dida’s, and Carmie had a psych appointment, at that’s it for Tuesday.
I had to take Carmie for a speech therapy assessment on Wednesday morning. She starts speech therapy every two weeks in March. I’m hoping she will get more confident from it, and her speaking will become more clear. She is a very fast talker, and she breathes in the wrong spots, so sometimes she is hard to understand. She started back at her social groups this week, and she seems pretty happy about it.
I don’t have too much else to add. I have been helping Jeff with his guitar school. We are changing a few things up this year, and hoping to grow our numbers significantly, so keep your fingers crossed!
I have incredibly boring photos this week!
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